AP US HISTORY TIMELINE

Columbus crosses the ocean

Jamestown

pilgrims and puritans

Bacosn's rebellion

7 years war

Boston Massacre, and the Batte of Lexington and Concord

Declaration of Independence issued.

Battle of Yorktown [Articles of Confederation]

Shay's Rebellion

Constitutional Convention

1st US president George Washington

Bill of Rights

Jefferson elected

War of 1812

Monroe is elected, Era of good feeings

Missouri Compromise -American System is created

Monroe doctrine issue

Corrupt Bargain

Andrew Jackson Presidency

Mexican-American War

Compromise of 1850

Lincoln elected, Civil War begins

Civil War ends; Lincoln assassinated

Compromise of 1877 - End of Reconstruction

Plessy v. Ferguson

Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

WWI begins, Woodrow elected

women get the right to vote, WW1 ends, Prohibition begins

stock market crash, bank run = Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

WWII STARTS

US enters WW2

WWII ends, USA bombs Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, Paris Peace Accors, UN and the cold war begins.

civil rights movement

John F. Kennedy

Vietnam

Watergate

Iranian Hostage

Ronald Reagan is elected

End of Cold War

Progressivism

progressivism, WW1

Roaring 20s

Great Depression

End of WWII and Red Scare

Civil rights movements

civil rights, feminist movement

Hippies, Drug Revolution, Sexual Revolution

Era of Reagan